For HTTP, we have a web page that accepts grep patterns.
For FTP, we've added a local "site" extension in our ftp server so that anonymous ftp users can run a grep on our computer and only send to their computer the index information that they want to see. This is quite a bit more efficient than pulling over the entire index and then scanning it on your remote (to us) computer. To use our FTP site index command, do something like this from your ftp> prompt:
quote site exec index PATTERNwhere PATTERN is the thing you want to scan for. try "emacs", for example.
For those interested in the old ls-lR*.Z files, we apologize but they are no longer available and will not be made available at any time in the future. If you want to copy the new index files, we make four versions available:
Index-byname pathnames listed more-or-less by pathname order Index-byname.Z compressed Index-bytime pathnames listed in date-last-updated order, newest first Index-bytime.Z compressed
They can be copied from the locations below. Warning: they are very big -- 3MB compressed and 16MB uncompressed (as of 29 July 1995).
Questions and complaints about ftp.digital.com should be sent to gw-archives@pa.dec.com.